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...four teams in the NCAA finals this weekend doesn't really belong there. The Indiana Hoosiers, coached by the brilliant Bobby Knight, are not one of the four best teams in the nation on paper. In fact, when I saw them play at the beginning of the season, I figured they would be somewhere in the middle...
...reason the Hoosiers are playing UCLA this Saturday is that they have one of the finest man-to-man defenses in the country. Coach Knight spends 80 per cent of his practices working on defensive fundamentals, and from all indications his players have learned well. Indiana's strong defense allows them to stay with teams with far superior material, even if the Hoosiers shooting is off range on a particular evening...
Wesley's oral biography traced and highlighted events in the life of the "pioneer in the rescue of black people..., the literary knight with a plumed pen" when Du Bois was one of only two blacks attending Harvard in the late...
...Vishnu, and some Persian decks had five-dancer, queen, soldier, king and lion (see opposite page, top left). In the classical fortuneteller's deck, the tarot, the suits were four: cups, swords, coins and batons. Each suit had 14 cards, with four court cards that included a knight. To this pack of 56 were added a further 22 divinatory images -the Tower, the Hanged Man, the Fool (who is the ancestor of the modern Joker) and so on. And from that basic deck evolved the standard 52-card French pattern of hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs that has been...
...Clarkson never said die and poured in three more in the third period to win going away. Dan O'Driscoll, John Paterson and Audycki capped the Golden Knight scoring. Dave Gauthier made it look almost respectable by scoring two goals within 40 seconds late in the game, bringing the score to its final figures...